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From: NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Greg Wettstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: make with two key features
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Date: 14 Aug 90 15:09:25 GMT
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A version of GNU Make which has been ported to MS-DOS is currently being
shipped to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  Mr. Davidsen has a fairly formidable
queue so I would imagine that it should shw up sometime in early September.

In its MS-DOS incarnation GNU Make knows about the Microsoft linker and
how to generate automatic response files for command lines longer than
127 characters.  All the features of GNU Make are preserved in the MS-DOS
environment so the inclusion of include files are supported.  I also taught
GNU Make how to read the INCLUDE environment variable so it will search
whatever directories the user specifies to find its include file.

Ian Stewartson was also kind enough to snip out the swapping code which
his group developed and sent it to me.  This has been included in the MS-DOS
port so that only about a 3-4K kernel is left when GNU Make runs the commands
associated with a target.

                             As always,
                             Dr. G.W. Wettstein
                             Roger Maris Cancer Center Computing Facility

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